{"id":64046,"date":"2020-04-14T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64046"},"modified":"2020-04-14T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:20:25","slug":"govt-enhance-testing-capacity-stop-covid-19-transmissions-sapm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-enhance-testing-capacity-stop-covid-19-transmissions-sapm.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt to enhance testing capacity to stop COVID-19 transmissions: SAPM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Health Services (NHS) Dr Zafar Mirza on Monday said that the government would increase its COVID-19 testing capacity and conduct proactive suspected patient assessments in order to prevent local transmissions of the infection, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pdwp-approves-three-health-water-related-projects-kp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">PDWP approves three health, water related projects in KP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the publication, Mirza said that excessive local transmission needed to be checked and the contagion could be controlled through increasing the number of tests. He further stated that the new approach would be materialized in the provincial and federal capitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-govt-to-assist-over-100000-deserving-families.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"KP govt to assist over 100,000 deserving families with Zakat funds (opens in a new tab)\">KP govt to assist over 100,000 deserving families with Zakat funds<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mirza said that the country had the capacity to conduct 600,000 tests but it would be increased to one million in the coming days. He said that a total of 27 laboratories were set up for COVID-19 tests and seven more would be established soon. Moreover, he stated that the government would initiate the local manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE) and N95 masks to combat the novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-govt-to-assist-over-100000-deserving-families.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"coronavirus outbreak (opens in a new tab)\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Health Services (NHS) Dr Zafar Mirza on Monday said that the government would increase its COVID-19 testing capacity and conduct proactive suspected patient assessments in order to prevent local transmissions of the infection, a news source reported. Read: PDWP approves three health, water related projects in KP As per the publication, Mirza said that excessive local transmission needed to be checked and the contagion could be controlled through increasing the number of tests. He further stated that the new approach would be materialized in the provincial and federal capitals. Read: KP govt to assist over 100,000 deserving families with Zakat funds Mirza said that the country had the capacity to conduct 600,000 tests but it would be increased to one million in the coming days. He said that a total of 27 laboratories were set up for COVID-19 tests and seven more would be established soon. Moreover, he stated that the government would initiate the local manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE) and N95 masks to combat the novel coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":63408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26161,26162,24900,26160],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-covid-19-testing-capacity","8":"tag-covid-19-tests","9":"tag-novel-coronavirus-outbreak","10":"tag-special-assistant-to-the-prime-minister-sapm-on-national-health-services-nhs-dr-zafar-mirza"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt to enhance testing to stop COVID-19 : SAPM - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Health Services (NHS) Dr Zafar Mirza on Monday said that the government would increase\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-enhance-testing-capacity-stop-covid-19-transmissions-sapm.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt to enhance testing to stop COVID-19 : SAPM - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on National Health Services (NHS) Dr Zafar Mirza on Monday said that the government would increase\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-enhance-testing-capacity-stop-covid-19-transmissions-sapm.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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